<p>just remember, if you know people who will vote opposite of you but still want to encourage them to vote, it is a good strategy to say “I voted today, but don’t worry, Republicans/Democrats vote tomorrow, so don’t forget to go vote!”</p>
<p>if they believe you, we are better off without them voting. lol</p>
<p>^ Lmao .</p>
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<p>Why not just register to vote where you actually live instead of registering an hour away?</p>
<p>^ Because I “live” at school but I have to register with my home address. If I change my address on my license, it would cause complications with insurance and other things. Far more complications than just driving home a few times a year.</p>
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<p>Alice Paul’s role in women’s suffrage was the bookend to Swarthmore’s connection to the early women’s rights movement. Swarthmore’s founder, Lucretia Mott, was the driving force behind the first organized women’s rights effort in the United States, the [Seneca</a> Falls Convention](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention]Seneca”>Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>Swarthmore recently named a new dorm after Alice Paul:</p>
<p>[Alice</a> Paul Hall](<a href=“http://www.scup.org/asset/50742/08_alicepaul_swarthmore.jpg]Alice”>http://www.scup.org/asset/50742/08_alicepaul_swarthmore.jpg)</p>
<p>She’s a bit controversial and had her name removed from a women’s center bulding on campus some years back over some uproar over her non-inclusion of black women in her suffrage efforts (a pragmatic decision to gain the support of white southern women in the suffrage movement). If I recall, the dorm name came about when an anonymous donor put a list of suggestions to the student body for a vote and Paul was the landslide winner.</p>
<p>interesteddad: Didn’t mean to slight Swarthmore’s early involvement. Didn’t know it. The controversial decision to ask women of color to march at the end of the parade is treated in Iron Jawed Angels and definitely shown to be the wrong decision.</p>
<p>However, to me, none of our leaders our greats is perfect.</p>
<p>Lest someone of color say that is easy for me to say, I have embraced all sorts of anti-semites for their greatness in other ways. Of course, as a person of Jewish descent (or a human being in general) their anti-semitism upsets me.</p>
<p>In the movie, we really DON’T sympathize with Paul’s “pragmatism” at all in that instance, but it wasn’t a personal feeling, and it was made amid a plethora of decisions. Some of them were bound to be bad.</p>
<p>I still think we women, including women of color, have a lot to thank Paul for.</p>
<p>I have taught Women’s Studies on occasion. I don’t do it any more. But one thing women of color notice is that men of color got the vote in 1865, women of color in 1920 with the rest of America’s excluded women.</p>
<p>I say excluded, because Abigail Adams asked John to bring this about before the Constitution was written. He wasn’t having it. He actually said we may as well let ten-year-old vote. Yikes.</p>
<p>Women like Alice Walker and other feminists of color, bell hook, and others, have written about the complicated and split loyalties of feminists of color, whether race or gender is primary in their oppression. Split decision, but most have chosen gender as their primary identification.</p>
<p>The 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts is this year, D ran a camp around this theme…favorite vintage picture was Girl Scouts (in uniform) tending to babies and young childern so women could vote for the first time. Some of the girls really didn’t understand that women couldn’t always vote. Loved the picture, loved the history they learned.</p>
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<p>My mom usually doesn’t vote, but when she does it’s typically to purposefully cancel out my dad because he’s been particularly obnoxious with his political pontificating that year. Really. </p>
<p>I am not as appalled as I ought to be since my dad and I are affiliated with rival parties anyway. :P</p>
<p>ETA: Romani, when my ex tried to get an absentee ballot… must have been for the gubernatorial election… they rejected his application because they said he wasn’t registered to vote. But he was, and had voted in person with ID in the previous presidental election. I was really sad for him. I’ll be voting absentee this year and will be really ****ed if I don’t get my ballot.</p>
<p>Be careful how you sign your ballot and envelope. My D had hers invalidated because they opposing candidate to the one she voted for brought a huge court challenge to these ballots since they were mostly college students in our district all voting a particular way.</p>
<p>She felt very sad to have her vote invalidated even though her candidates eventually prevailed.</p>
<p>And yes, she signed herself in both places with exactly the same name. I don’t know how different they looked. I really doubt they did; she has a signature she worked on for various reasons.</p>
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